Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:33:52 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD deadlock (with fork?) Message-ID: <1221744832.68732.4.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200809180631.47071.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> References: <200809180631.47071.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 06:31 +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I have a program that spawns a lot of subprocesses (with pipes open) from > multiple threads. The problem is the program often deadlocks, but not > consistently. Sometimes the program can run over 5 times to competition > without incidence and yet othertimes it locks within a few seconds. > Do you create threads, which then fork(), or do you fork() and then create threads? I think the former will not work.. Cheers Tom [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkjSWLwACgkQlcRvFfyds/fmIgCfUQh21NO2FqkmGylH2syswyC5 IcgAn0ubHjnroSlQ9UEjGwt7OZydFys0 =7XeH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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